Clarence Thomas

What is the value of being able to eat fish? What price should be put on birth defects that show up in a human fetus? What about the cost of people dying much earlier than they should have if not for an encounter with a toxic chemical? To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, we live in an age where it's possible to know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Perhaps that's something a majority of the Supreme Court might have mulled over — maybe while eating lunch that likely did not include king mackerel or other seafood that now carries a health warning — in their decision to block U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations limiting the harmful emissions from...

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